How did you decide on your handle?

I used to ice skate (both hockey and figure). I have always liked the term. I prefer to use <SKATER] and \SKATER/. kinda looks like a figure skate blade and a hockey skate blade, respectively

SecureITGroup

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Posts: 293

3+ Months Ago

Mine came from my group I run on the internet. It is experiencing a new host so the server isn’t up right now but maybe about 3 weeks. It is a forum running phpBB v2.08 with a modified theme I am just waiting for the guy to get MySQL Setup then ill be all set, ill post the web address when the server is up online.

Talos

Beginner

Posts: 37

Loc: Colorado Springs

3+ Months Ago

Well my name was something I actually came up with when I first started playing around on the internet. I used to go into a virtual chat program called Excite VP. I used a few other names that never fit me just right. I searched a long time through names and finally came up with this one from greek mythology.

Talos
Talos was a bronze giant made by Hephaestos. His duty was to protect Europa who gave birth to Minos after being seduced by Zeus. He threw boulders to frighten strangers who approached the island of Crete. He was killed when Medea removed the pin that held the life force in his body.

I have used this name for just about everything from that day on. I even created 2 characters in everquest using this name back in my addiction days. but thats how it came about.

suzie

Guru

Posts: 1153

Loc: England

3+ Months Ago

Just **Suzie** no mystery..no meaning behind the name, i like to have different names for differnt discussion boards, but i was advised against this from a friend, now just use one..not this one though.

And atno, thanks, i have wondered since day one what those letters meant lolol

Suzie

Miss_Bee

Guru

Posts: 1306

Loc: Eagle Vale, Sydney (Campbo Chickadee)

3+ Months Ago

I used to run a paint shop pro group called Mystical Wildfire...I got loads of help questions and were able to have answer within 20mins max....one of my members started calling me Miss_Bee whenever he needed help as a joke and it kinda just stuck everywhere I went

Zombie

Beginner

Posts: 39

3+ Months Ago

I got mine coz my ex said I was brain dead when in front of the

computer hence the nickname Zombie . And why she is my Ex LMAO.

LAbrego

brego from LA

Posts: 2855

3+ Months Ago

Well, mine has nothing special, I took it from my name Luis Abrego and I'm kind of stuck in it, I think if I took another I will forget it

When i was little i used to mumble sometimes...Then when ever my mum didnt no what i was saying she'd say "whose wee dug?" cos she had no idea what i was on about. (I have a strange family) Then when i got the internet i wanted a unique name that could sound slightly scottish, whos_wee_dug, fits great

whos_wee_dug?

Smokenjoe

Mastermind

Posts: 1572

Loc: Seattle, WA

3+ Months Ago

My screen name kinda came about funny. When StarCraft first came out, I had the sn Reifleman. After that, I went on vacation for about three weeks. When I got back, I had gone over to my friends house, and we were playing SC on his comp. When I tried to log into it with my old sn, I couldnt remmember the correct password. My friend just happened to have a sn, Smokenjoe, that he used to start fights with people when he was bored on B.net(he was wierd). He let me use that one. After a while, the name just kinda stuck, so I changed the password so that he couldnt log on with it anymore. Ive used it ever since! Its funny because my name isnt Joe, and I dont smoke.

JnsBedORoses

Newbie

Posts: 12

Loc: Powhatan, VA

3+ Months Ago

I got my name cuz of my girlfriend. Her initials are J.N. (Jerica Nonell) and she took this little mini quiz thing off of her friend Deadjournal and it said she deserved a bed of roses and it was just a coincident (Sp?) that my name is Rose as well so all of our friends refer to me as her bed of roses hence the name JNsBedORoses.

Miss_Bee

Guru

Posts: 1306

Loc: Eagle Vale, Sydney (Campbo Chickadee)

3+ Months Ago

Very cool Rose!

JnsBedORoses

Newbie

Posts: 12

Loc: Powhatan, VA

3+ Months Ago

Ya...i just made it my screen name for AOL one day and IMed her and she almost died laughing. So i have had it ever since.

zudo

Beginner

Posts: 35

3+ Months Ago

I forgot how I came up with mine, but I use it everywhere, I think it looks cool when written, anywho I have been informed that it means sweat in some language (forgot which)

Liquescence

Proficient

Posts: 353

Loc: Queens, NY

3+ Months Ago

Well I used to have names like PixxieTini and Martini (nicknams given by my best friend). Later on I started using xHolyDarkness as my handle for everything... Holy Darkness is a song that we do in my church (I'm in the choir) and I'm in love with that song...

For this forum the reason for Liquescence was pathetic... I wanted something cool to name my web hosting, so I spent a day going through the dictionary picking out random words... and I ended up with this...

SSH-Raj

Expert

Posts: 588

3+ Months Ago

i used hotraj when i first started out but then that was bad for business so a figured adrenalinepcs would be cool so I've used that on almost everything. i also used devilzown as my starcraft name because i was so great full for windows xp I've just started using this handle on all the webmaster sites to help promote my hosting site.

David

Graduate

Posts: 165

3+ Months Ago

My father is German and my nut/mother is Australia. I was born in Australia.

Musik says I used Babel fish.

PrISM

Novice

Posts: 17

Loc: McConnell AFB, Kansas

3+ Months Ago

One day back in high school physics class we were talking about prisms. For some reason when I needed a new handle, I chose that because it sounded cool and I don't remember seeing a lot of people use it. The "PrISM" just looks better than "prism" or "Prism" in my opinion.

SinisterDexter

Newbie

Posts: 5

3+ Months Ago

"SinisterDexter" has been with me for almost five years now, and gone through many, many, MANY minor changes, but I eventually just reverted to this. As for it's origin, one of my friends found out that "Sinister" meant left, and "Dexter" meant right[or is it the other way around?], and when you have left and right you have balance, and I'm fairly "unbalanced", so..........I didn't come up with it, so don't look at me like that! But it stuck, so I kept it.

bkummer

Student

Posts: 69

Loc: Butler, Pennsylvania

3+ Months Ago

Well, as you can see it's very easy to figure out my handle for this forum!
first initial and last name.

Nickname from bicycle-racing... apparently my style of riding mirrors that of Mario Cipollini (a.k.a. The Lion King). He won (over the years) tons of stages at the Tour de France in sprints, and for each stage win the winning rider gets a toy Lion wearing a yellow jersey... amongst other things like a bouquet flowers and being pictured with half-n@ked French ladies.

Gee... I'm glad they didn't call me Bouquet !

twmspro

Expert

Posts: 591

Loc: Indiana

3+ Months Ago

i actually have like 6 handles.
For here twms is the name of my school and pro is for me being basically only one who can fix computers at school besides of course the IT department which i now belong to connected from a x-teacher of mine

souerscars(my first screen name!):souers my last name, cars because my dad and i love cars.

twmsdude:twms school,dude cause everyone thinks in stupid.

That's it!

jupiter

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Posts: 449

Loc: is my favourite word after subterfuge

3+ Months Ago

Jupiter

Just Undone Pleasantries In The Echo Room.

The Echo room was where they would send feisty kids at school so they could shout as loud as they wanted. A frequent hang out of mine

twmspro

Expert

Posts: 591

Loc: Indiana

3+ Months Ago

LOL jupiter

I know a kid that would know every freakin' measurement in that room.

Benat

Mastermind

Posts: 2122

3+ Months Ago

Benat is the first 2 letters from the first word, and the first 3 letters from the second word, of the company Iam planning on opening by the end of this year.

joebert

Fart Bubbles

Posts: 13506

Loc: Florida

3+ Months Ago

jupiter wrote:

The Echo room was where they would send feisty kids at school so they could shout as loud as they wanted. A frequent hang out of mine

I went to a school that had 6-9th grade, there was one 9th grade class with about a dozen kids in it, one period a day that class was split up & each student was assigned as a teachers assistant. 8th grade year I was in "the room" so often they had no problem with making me the teachers assistant there for 9th grade.

Now that I think back on that I can't believe I actually recieved Highschool credit for being in "the room"

musik

Legend

Posts: 6891

Loc: up a tree

3+ Months Ago

whos_wee_dug wrote:

When i was little i used to mumble sometimes...Then when ever my mum didnt no what i was saying she'd say "whose wee dug?" cos she had no idea what i was on about. (I have a strange family) Then when i got the internet i wanted a unique name that could sound slightly scottish, whos_wee_dug, fits great

whos_wee_dug?

oh thats classic. your family sound like mine!!

musik

Legend

Posts: 6891

Loc: up a tree

3+ Months Ago

David wrote:

My father is German and my nut/mother is Australia. I was born in Australia.

Musik says I used Babel fish.

@ Babelfish

Its true, my mum is a nut too!!

Benat

Mastermind

Posts: 2122

3+ Months Ago

[quote="musik]

Quote:

Its true, my mum is a nut too!!

Hehe!! My mum is also a nutter!![/quote]

musik

Legend

Posts: 6891

Loc: up a tree

3+ Months Ago

hehe, yeah who wants a normal family anyways

this213

Guru

Posts: 1259

Loc: ./

3+ Months Ago

This213: I used to refer to myself as "This" all the time, refering to my physical self in the OOP style of $this (which is why I usually sign "This" if I sign a post at all). The meaning behind that is that I believe I'm much more than just "This" and this is nothing more than just "This". The 213 is to show that "This" isn't quite in the right order and still has to run through a sort or two.

YZIX: I used to use yzxix as a sn long ago. I was dumping the sn I had used since either before or just after AOL was internet-capable, (semitekie) because I figured I was full-on tekie, but I couldn't think of a decent replacement. yzxix was more what I was thinking when I gave up on the search than an actual name - like a sudden burst of electricity. YZIX came about because it's actually pronouncable (somewhat), and the domain name was available (and only 4 letters long)